55 billion to water infrastructure and 65 billion will be spent on improving broadband internet access. that tasha joins us live. we will get to the politics of this in a moment. let s start first with the substance, how important is this bill to the country? how will americans benefit and when are they like will toy see a payoff? well, it s incredibly important just because the decaying infrastructure. there is all kind of problems with our bridges, which is dangerous. our ports are unsafe and we need to invest in our public transit system. we need to invest in our water pipes, broadband and so forth. but originally this bill was called the american jobs plan. i think that would be another added benefit. i think that s another reason why it can be so popular, it will be so popular, because it will create a lot of jobs and
so many times we ve seen this landscape. you know, people talking about how they can appeal to red state voters and not necessarily censoring people of clompl so i i. so i think that s a legitimate point. that stat floored me 400 businesses are started every day by latino women. even our panelist started a business during the pandemic. that s a very impressive number. i am curious how that number has been impacted by the pandemic and what that means to the economics of this country at large? you know, when you take a look at businesses and not just people who start a side hustle like marianna and so many people, but people who are actualically conducting their business as their main source of income, latinas really were heavily impacted. a majority of them are in service businesses. they re in restaurants, they re in nail salons and things that all had to close during the
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pandemic. so they were very much affected. but that i have started to bounce back and there are some studies, the one study out of usc that says latino businesses overall, latin x businesses overall have actually regained their footing and are back to making money to pre-pandemic levels at a faster rate than non-latino businesses. they are the engine of growth right now. latinos are twice as like will toy start a business, oftentimes because they don t have, we don t have the same kind of access. you know, there are a lot of us who have gone to college. my family came when i was little. i was a citizen at 9. we came from cuba. my dad had a business. it didn t do well. we had trouble sometimes being able to get that next contract, being able to get to that next level and part of the reason is that latino businesses and for latinaings, especially, it s real hard to access that capital. so when they are doing their own businesses, they re putting a